eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

The problem is to balance the reality of today’s pressure for test scores and required teacher evaluation with the changes that can be anticipated during the next two decades. New question: How do you manage your own professional growth? Current question : How do you share what you already know with students?

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Starting this fall, Alabama high school students can choose to take these classes–or any other state-approved career and technical education courses–in place of upper level math and science, such as Algebra 2 or chemistry. Americans are questioning the value of the return on their investment: Is it worth my money?

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. Do they know how to question a graph they see on social media? The same goes for students.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Content areas, such as math and science, and other areas like memory, executive function, and social-emotional development are being informed by research. And while the science of reading is currently in the forefront of media cycles, many other areas of education are being informed by cognitive neuroscience research.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

When state testing season arrives, classroom routines can quickly fall apart. In this blog, I’ll share six strategies that encourage students to explore, create, reflect, and connecteven during the testing season. This strategy challenges them to generate an inquiry question they want to explore and answer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Math and reading scores demonstrate more variability post-COVID, primarily due to a larger gap between low and high academic achievers, according to NWEA , a nonprofit research and educational services organization serving K-12 students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. Another compared the length of videos.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group. The problem?

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) isn’t working.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars. Other question types include fill-in-the-blank, true or false, drag-and-drop, and matching.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Within two years, I had run out of math and Spanish classes there, so I walked from my public school campus to nearby Lewis and Clark College to study differential equations, symbolic logic, and the plays of 1830s Spain. That’s part of the impetus behind the new nonprofit I run, National Math Stars. newsletters.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. I thought so. Probably not.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

After earning this degree and passing certification tests required by some states, candidates are qualified to teach. The ninth-graders in my classes and the preservice teachers I teach have one thing in common: math has not always come easy for them, and for many in both groups, learning math can be overwhelming.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. and, “Tell your partner what you can explain about your driving question so far.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. That has consequences.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It’s a complicated question in the age of COVID-19. As I meet with team leaders in my suburban Chicago school district, I ask: What is your department doing to create equitable and inclusive learning conditions for all of our students?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As students log into their classrooms, another question arises – what has been the impact on student learning since the COVID-19 pandemic began? Based on these projections, the estimated impact on learning was significant – especially in math. Related content: How data will mitigate COVID-related learning losses.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

While those aren’t tested on standardized tests, it’s a necessary and important piece of what students and learners need when they get out into the workforce. When educators are comfortable with engineering, The engineering design process is a cycle that begins with a question: 1. Ask a question 2.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. The new data come from tests taken in early 2024 by nearly half a million students across thousands of U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

While 89 percent of teachers reported in a recent survey that they believe generative AI will have an impact on teaching, recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal and The74 have rightly identified some of AI’s limitations in education, questioning the technology’s ability to serve as, for example, an effective tutor.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is a question every educator has faced before. To be fair, its a valid question. In my experience, teachers have two standard replies to this question: Theyll try to explain the subject in detail, which results in a long-winded answer that confuses their students and doesnt satisfy them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2017

In this environment, students are accustomed to a very structured style of learning, where they are handed a worksheet, then asked to turn to page five in their math book and solve problems one through 15. Students today are accustomed to tests where the questions only have one right answer.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2024

The use of AI in teacher coaching brings up similar questions. But some teachers said they still had questions about how accurately the technology can capture subtle classroom interactions, how useful its data will be, and whether it will be skewed by biases. I would like to see it in action.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As part of the collaboration, MCPS is expanding its use of IXL Math to personalize learning for students taking Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry courses. ” Montgomery County Public Schools, home to 211 K -12 schools and 160,000 students, initially adopted IXL Math in 2023 to support 36,000 students in grades 6-8.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. The report also details the extent to which students are separated based on their perceived math abilities, starting as young as elementary school. newsletters.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. before I even ask.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent of students reported having a test, quiz, or exam within their first week of school. percent) expect math to be their hardest subject, followed by English (14.7 With math being the perpetually most searched subject on Brainly, it’s clear that students are preparing for a tough road ahead. percent) and science (13.0

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM careers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. If a math teacher gives you a set of problems to solve, why not leverage Khanmigo to help you solve them? This is a question only a human can truly answer.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Montana OPI will offer Discovery Education’s DreamBox solutions to the 53 school districts participating in the second year of the state’s Montana Alternative Student Testing (MAST) Pilot program. The partnership will provide DreamBox Math and DreamBox Reading Plus to nearly 30,000 students (grades 3-8) across the state.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Fortunately, AI has the capability to absorb vast bodies of text and come up with meaningful questions as long as it is steered correctly.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2025

In Volusia County, Florida, Volusia County School students navigate wetlands, test water quality, and track environmental shifts using Vernier technology. Probeware supports this by giving students opportunities to engage in real-world investigations, test hypotheses, and interpret data in meaningful ways.

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